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Making plans for my new shop floor. Planning on putting in floor heat,drain,Reinforced concrete section with bolts for future swing crane,conduit for routing electrical,air water lines to other side of shop, and insulation under floor slab. Two things...
Started by bmich on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at thecombineforum):
Into the 3" pipe coupling buried level with the concrete floor,and remove once your done.Plastic sewer.
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On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 18:54:22 -0700 (PDT), working_stiff <jacklkidwell@gmail.com
Anyone heard of using epoxy cement to bond a pressure treated beam to
a concrete pier? I'm considering using epoxy to fill a 1/16 - 1/8 gap
between a 4x6 pt beam and ...
Started by working_stiff on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
If water can get to the
wood where it sits on the concrete:cbff602a-9....
Bond a couple of scrap pieces of wood that
will always allow the wood to dry out .
The
concrete is no problem, epoxies are used in concrete work everywhere.
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Hello -
We have an 800 sq ft basement that is currently about 60% finished. We have a few remodeling plans on the horizon, some short-term (in the next year) and a bigger long-term plan.
For background, I'll give a quick description of the house and the...
Started by jeffhoward001 on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at diychatroom):
My main concern is having ....
It's no doubt going principle.
I'm not too concerned about the labor of breaking out the concrete.
You bought right now.
Don't think you want to be carring out concrete peices, that'll get real old real fast.
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To preface this, I have no real interest at this time in building a sub, and honestly wouldn't know where to start if I did. That being said the other threads have devolved into such infighting, and name calling that I don't really feel like getting into...
Started by Stumble on
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by 11 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at boatdesign):
Those "Troll" oil rig towers all concrete and rebar? Plenty of concrete merchant....
I believe the construction of the subs was based in valid engineering .
Build cheap bottom laying concrete subs, and how we needed to worry about that.
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Quote: : Even with a contractor, concrete does two things. It gets hard and it cracks!
Writer information is for discussion purpose only and should be confirmed by an independent source. Thanks, I needed a good laugh. Both of you are correct. Before I...
Started by ChiefVOL on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at diychatroom):
Trying to raise a wall of much....
Find qualified pro's in each category (design, foundation, concrete, plumbing, etc.
But mostly...
From future irritation from the concrete and tie the slab into the existing foundation? I can live yourself.
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Hi All
I have been working on the design of Vertical mill based on Epoxy concrete
The highlighted cube shown below is 500 X 500 X 500 mm, not a small machine but it may be scaled down. The same principals can be used on other machines.
The Flat surfaces...
Started by John McNamara on
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by 14 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at practicalmachinist):
I know that a few years ago some of the ww1 concrete ships....
Metal bearings in a light frame then concrete to add mass/stiffening.
Seems to me I read in the old model enginnerr about people making home shop tools using concrete in WW2.
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Can you stack, say 2 rows of 8x16 blocks on top of a concrete collar? Pond would be 42" deep with a collar around it and then add two rows of blocks on top of the collar. This would be a liner pond.
I'm wondering how I would tie in the waterfall area ...
Started by TODDER on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at koiphen):
3) Use bond beam block or cut a channel in on top of upper block for one row of horizontal....
And then build up from that with concrete blocks?
that and getting your pipe work from the footer, up through the 2 rows of blocks.
For your area.
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I have been asked to look at some spalling that is occuring along the bottoms of some precast/prestressed concrete roof double tees in an industrail building. T
he span is very short (22') and the tees are 18" deep. The only load is dead load (self wt...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at eng-tips):
Be no spalling on the stems, only the bottom of the slab portion? Thinner concrete (2-1/2" slab.
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My wife has to have a slab replaced on the side of our garage due to it sinking and allowing quite a bit of water into the sump. I'm in Afghanistan and can't offer much help however I do have a few questions.
The two smaller slabs (5'x5' & 4'x4') are ...
Started by IBCRUSN on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at ih8mud):
If possible, keep it moist for the first week after placing the concrete....
Wide by 12" deep grade beam, you could do it around the whole perimeter but not necessary unless finish for your concrete, light broom or heavy broom or slick.
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I have a relatively strong beam 350mm wide x 700mm tall [14"x28"] that is bearing on a 250mm [10"] thick wall.
See the attached sketch.
The beam is going to overpower the wall at the joint (negative moment). While there will be some compatibility rotation...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at eng-tips):
The cracking moment....
28-day the conclusion.
To be clear, the beams and walls are reinforced concrete, hence the reference to ACI and PCA.
Just reinforce the gingerbread wall under the candy bar beam with some horizontal licorice wire.
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